Guenter lewy biography

Guenter Lewy (born 22 August 1923) is a German-born American author and political scientist who is a professor emeritus of political science at the University.
Born in 1923 in Breslau (then Germany, now Wroclaw, Poland), he emigrated to the British mandate in Palestine in early 1939, working in a kibbutz until late.
Guenter Lewy is a German-born American author and political scientist who is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Guenter Lewy

Guenter Lewy(born 22 August 1923) is a German-born American author and political scientistwho is a professor emeritusof political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His works span several topics, but he is most often associated with his 1978 book on the Vietnam War, ''America in Vietnam'', and several controversial works that deal with the applicability of the term ''genocide'' to various historical events, where Lewy denies both the Romani genocideand the Armenian genocide.

In 1939 he migrated from Germanyto Palestine. After World War II, he migrated to the United States to reunite with his parents. Lewy earned a BA at City Collegein New York City and a MA and PhD at Columbia University. He has been on the faculties of Columbia University, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He currently lives in Washington, D.C., and was a frequent contributor to ''Commentary''. Provided by Wikipedia

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Oral history interview with Guenter Lewy

This is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Volunteer Collection interview with Guenter Lewy conducted

by Gail Schwartz on March 18, 2013 in Washington DC.

This is track number one.

And that is the name you were born with?

And when were you born and where were you born?

I was born on August 22, 1923, in a town at the time

called Breslau, the capital of Silesia in Germany.

Now it's called Wroclaw, and it's part of Poland.

Let's talk a little bit about your family,

about your parents, who they were and their names.

My father, Henry, was born in Memel,

which is near East Prussia.

It's now a military base of Russia, I believe.

And he moved to Silesia at some point,

I don't know exactly when, and eventually landed in Breslau

where he was in business.

His name was Henry because his father had been an Anglophile,

and that led to all kinds of complications

to which we can return perhaps, after Kristallnacht.

Would you

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Guenter Lewy (born August 22, 1923) is a German-born American author and political scientist who is a professor emeritus of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His works span several topics, but he is most often associated with his 1978 book on the Vietnam War, America in Vietnam, and several controversial works that deal with the applicability of the term genocide to various historical events.

In 1939 he migrated from Germany to Mandatory Palestine. After World War II, he migrated to the United States to reunite with his parents. Lewy earned a BA at City College in New York City and a MA and PhD at Columbia University. He has been on the faculties of Columbia University, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He currently lives in Washington, D.C., and is a frequent contributor to Commentary.

He has been labelled a genocide denier by the International Association of Genocide Scholars.^[1]

Early life[]

Lewy was born in Breslau, Germany, (now Wrocław, Poland) in 1923. At the age of nine he joined a German-Jewis